indeed.

this morning i was wrapped up all cozy-like on the couch with kz, in a favorite position of mine swaddled in blankets which i like to call "bunny maki." we were watching last night's episode of the daily show, as we often do...mornings find me either riding my bike/leaving on time or slothfully moaning and rocking back and forth on the sofa as i watch the minutes tick closer to 8:00 and my brain constantly re-compounds the amount of time i truly require to get dressed and wash up.

jon stewart was interviewing neil de grasse tyson, that effervescent black astrophysicist dude you see hosting nova. you can't help but think the man gets equally excited by handjobs and the space-time continuum. he's kind of the best ever.

the clock reads 7:53, and we're snuggled up watching this interview when tyson goes, "you come to this precipice between what is known and what is unknown. this is where the research scientist lives, and that is what excites the person to wake up and run to the office every day!" kz and i simultaneously snort hysterically as i cover my face with the blanket in shame and he proclaims, "the precipice for the bunny is between couch and not couch."

how apt.

omg srsly

excerpts from an email sent to the entire now-second year class by one of its "elderly" (e.g. age 26 and over) members:


Hello All!

So, yesterday (semi-popular younger guy) very nicely told me that I needed to get onto AIM since this is how you all communicate to go out here and people were sick of calling me to join in :) Therefore, I downloaded the application and my screen name is douchebag69. Please add me &/ send me you screen name so I can participate in the fun.


don't you wish i were kidding? this is what i deal with every day.

meet fernando.

this is my new bike that i just bought 2 hours ago. his name is fernando. we are already best friends. he was kind of bored just riding around our complex, but i promised him the taste of the open road pretty soon.

i also got a helmet and a neon-visible camelbak with fernando, all thanks to a generous wedding gift from a family friend. i suppose i could have put it toward my considerable credit card debt, but fitness > all.

i knew as soon as i swung a leg over that fernando and i were meant to be. i had just been bemoaning to kz how i had been trying to buy a bike for days. DAYS i tell you. i decided last week i should get one and replace some of my gym time with riding in the fresh air. i did some research and slept on the idea. i found what i wanted but couldn't get the right frame size, or a non-girlybike, or a hybrid rather than a mountain bike, or something i could afford, anywhere since friday. i thought it was pretty awful that in a capitalist society, i had to WORK HARD to find someplace to purchase something ubiquitous to all that is american. i was moping around so much that kz mocked me with a perfect impersonation of my whining, "i've been trying to purchase a multi-hundred dollar item meant for serious road use and fit to my own build, and from when i got the idea in my head and did research to when i could actually buy one took days! several days!" and he made me laugh, and i vowed to be more patient.

then i went to EMS and was charging fernando 10 minutes after i walked in. patience is for pussies.